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Security researcher, ex-pentester, ex-developer, reverse engineer, amateur cryptography, electronics tinkerer, digital rights proponent, promulgator of useless facts.

Strengths: Security, Crypto, Win32 API, Windows Internals, C#, .NET, PHP, x86 assembly, Arduino

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1123 How does SSL/TLS work? Sep 28 '12
900 How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon? Dec 20 '12
707 How to store salt? Jul 20 '12
481 Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? Dec 18 '12
244 Why shouldn't we roll our own? Aug 6 '12
220 What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? Mar 30 '13
204 Why wasn't the KRACK exploit discovered sooner? Oct 16 '17
203 How to approach replacing md5 for transporting Unity game data to a remote server Jan 2 '17
202 Can a computer virus be stored somewhere else than on the hard drive? Apr 21 '16
158 How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users? Nov 19 '12
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